Welcome back Apple and Lime Class!
At the beginning of this half term we will be learning about traditional tales. This week we focused on the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and looked at different versions to make comparisons. We also retold the story using story maps and thought about what the characters might say in speech bubbles.
As a surprise for the children, we had arranged for the firefighters to visit us! The children got the opportunity to look around the fire engine and discover the various equipment and how it is used.
The Reception children also followed instructions to make their own Gingerbread Men. We weighed out the ingredients and mixed them together to make the dough. We were very lucky the Gingerbread Men did not run away after they were cooked in the oven! The children of course loved giving their Gingerbread Men the taste test after baking.
This week in Maths we have been learning some number songs linked to the number 5. We then deepened our understanding of 5 as a quantity by linking the number itself to the 5 fingers on one hand. We also began to explore ways to represent numbers to 5 using both their fingers and the Hungarian number pattern.
In Phonics we have learnt the new phase 3 sounds y, z, zz, qu, and ch. We practised using the rhymes to help us to form these letters. The children enjoyed thinking about all the words they could think of that included these sounds. We also practised the skills of segmenting and blending for reading and writing. As we are now learning more phonics sounds, please make sure you continue to practise and recap the ones we have already learnt at home. The harder to read and spell words this week were ‘we’, ‘be’ and ‘me’.
Nativity
In your reading records, you will find your child’s line/s to learn for the nativity. If there is no line, it is because your child didn’t want to speak but don’t worry, they still have an important role to play!
The children have a few songs to learn for the performance. If you are able to support your child to practice and learn the words to these songs at home, it would be much appreciated.
The songs are:
- Little donkey
- Twinkle twinkle
- Away in a manger (First verse only)
- Jingle Bells (Chorus only)
- When santa got stuck up the chimney
- Rudolph the red nose reindeer (Chorus only)
- We wish you a merry christmas
Key Points
- If your child has a line to say in the christmas Nativity show this will be inside your yellow reading records. Please practise this with your child at home.
- Next week we will be focusing on the story ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We would be grateful for any sticks or straw to help us to make houses.
- Please continue to read with your children daily at home. This only needs to be a couple of pages and then please record that you have read in the yellow reading records.
Have a great weekend!
Reception Team
